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(No Model.)

W. E. MOORE.

- CLASP.

No. 359,459. Patented Mala-15,1887.

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PATENT OFFICE;

\VI'LLIAM E. MOORE, OF OHILLIGOTHE, OHIO.

CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,459, dated March 15, 1887.

Application filed April 26, 1886. Renewed January 8, 1887. Serial No.

ments in Universal Fastenin gs for Tags, Straps,

and the like and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in universal fasteners for tugs, hame-straps, and thelike, and is designed to furnish to the trade an article of durable and economical construction, readily manipulated, and which at the same time shall afford the highest degree of security against accidental uncoupling when in actual use. For the ac complishment of these ends I have devised the construction hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is' a bottom plan view of my improved fastener, one of its members being in part hidden from view by the other, in the position of adjustment chosen. Fig. 2 'is a central longitudinal section of the fastener. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the two members of the fastener detached from each other, and Fig. 4 is a side elevationof one of the members of the fastener. I

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The fastener consists of two plates, A B,

slotted, respectively, at their outer ends, as

shown at G and If, 'for the reception of the 0pposite ends of the strap H, to which they are attached. The plate A at its inner end is depressed, as shown, and is provided with a loop projection, F, bent reversely about a cross-bar, E, holding the latter rigidly, the loop projection and crossbar forming a T- piece extending beyond the main body of the said-plate A. r

The plate B is slotted at b and I)", leaving an intermediate portion provided with the pin or This construction permits the use of the supplemental strap I, said strap having a series of the usual holes for the reception of the pin J, wherein; the strap I may be adjusted 223,818. (No model.)

at will. At its inner end the plate B is provided upon its under side with the turn-plate D, pivoted at s in such manner that it may be turned to the right or left, as desired, but with sufficient friction to remain in the position to which it is adjusted. The turn-plate is provided with an enlarged end, d, and a fingerpiece, d for manipulating it. The plate B is provided, furthermore, with the downwardlyeXtendi-ng curved projections (J O. I

The. parts being constructed and arranged as described, the operation of my invention is as follows: The turn-plate D having been first revolved to the right or left outwardly from the position shown in the drawings-the crossbar E of the T projection is inserted between the curved projections O O and the main body of the plate B, the loop F occupying the space between said curved projections. The turnplate is then revolved to the position shown in the drawings, thereby locking the plates A and B together and completing the fastening. The plates are uncoupled by revolving the turn-plate away from in front of the loop F, whereupon the cross-bar E may be removed.

It is evident that when the turn-plate is in the locked position the cross-bar cannot be removed by pressure exerted against it in any direction, the curved projections O G, abutting against the loop F, and the shoulder d of the turn-plate effectually preventing disengagement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. Afastener of the kind described, consisting of a plate, A, provided with a T projection, and aplate, B, providedwith curved projections O G and a locking turn-plate, substantially as shown and described.

2. Afastener of the kind described, consisting of a plate, A, provided with a T projeetion, and a plate, B, provided with curved projections O O, integral with said plate, and a locking turn plate, D, pivoted to the plate B and having a' shoulder, d, and finger-piece d, substantially as shown and described.

3. Afastener of the kind described, consisting of a plate, A, provided with a T projection, and a plate, B, provided with curved projections C C and a locking turn-plate, and

slotted at b b for the reception of a suppletion of a supplemental str mental strap or tug, I, substantially as shown tially as described.

and described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in ap or tug, substan- IO 4. Afastener of the kind described, consist- I presence of two witnesses. 5 in" of aplate A, provided with loop F and 7 ,1 erZss-bar E, rind a plate, B, provided with ILLIAM MOORL' \Vitnesses:

SAMUEL J. BRIGGS, G120. W. IRWIN.

pivoted turn-plate D having shoulder 11 and finger-piece (P, and curved projections G C, said plate being slotted at b b for the recep- 

